FW: Need suggestions on testing honeypot

The Nessus Internet Scanner is one of the best Linux based scanning tools
around - but setting up Linux and Nessus can be a difficult climb for
someone who's not experienced or doesn't have the time.

A new item has come out that may be of help - I've just had some good
experiences with it, and it includes Nessus and a lot more security tools
worth looking at.

It's called Knoppix STD - aka Knoppix Security Tools Distribution.

Knoppix, in case you're not aware, is a complete Linux distribution on a
single CD-ROM. You boot the CD-ROM and the entire OS runs from it. No hard
disk space required at all.

Boot the CD, let it do it's thing, then right-click and pick Nessus off the
menu - the enter the scan parameters, target, etc. and go.

Results can be exported onto a floppy disk as well.

All you need to do is download the ISO from http://www.knoppix-std.org/ and
burn it onto a CD-ROM.

Good luck!

- John C. Silvia

-----Original Message-----
From: James Chong [mailto:james_cwy_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:22 PM
To: honeypots_at_securityfocus.com
Subject: Need suggestions on testing honeypot

Hello all.I am new to honeypots and had set up a
honeypot using honeyd 0.7 running on redhat 9. I would
like to test this honeypot but unsure how.
Due to some restrictions I cannot put it on the
Internet-I know this is the best but no can do.

Due to this, are there any other ways to test my
honeypot?
I want to show that it had deployed successfully the
templates, it captures the attacks, generates an
analysis/graph of the attacks on the honeypot.
Basically it is to prove that honeyd is up and running
and does what it suppose to do.

Now, because I cannot expose it to the Internet I need
to come up with my own attacks-do them on my
own.Unfortunately, I am not that good with these
things and hope someone can provide some info and
guidance on where I can learn up the attacks quickly.

What tools can I use to test my honeypot?

Pls advise.Thanks a million
James C

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Received on Fri Feb 13 2004 - 23:56:11 PST